Władysław Starewicz Movies

Two animated fables by La Fontaine "The Old Lion" ("Le lion devenu vieux") and "The Lion and the Gnat" ("Le Lion et le Moucheron").

1925 animated french short by Starewicz

A bear, a rabbit and a fox decide to form a band and play for the animals of the forest.

The last of Starewicz's surviving Russian shorts

A dog's shipboard honeymoon voyage takes a turn for the worse when a fierce storm hits the ship.

The film is a delightful tale of a spoiled wedding between child's toys which shows Starewicz's typical style of making amusing films appropriate for...

A drunken gardener is challenged to a poker match by agents of the Devil; replete with location shots in Hades of the Devil giving orders to his...

The animated combat by night between stag beetles.

The Mascot and his wife are on an island. When going out to fish, Mascot ends up being enchanted by a mermaid.

The last surviving fiction film from Wladyslaw Starewicz's wartime associtation with the Skobelev Committee

A worker and union leader is falsely accused of theft, by a boss who is lusting after his fiancée

Based on Alexander Ostrovsky's "The Snow Maiden"

While the twelve strokes of midnight slowly sound in the night and the lights go out in the windows of old Montmartre, a devil is born in a puddle of...

In an animal school in the heart of Africa a giraffe wonders about the trip to Paris.